ALSF Childhood Cancer Research Grants
With your support, we have been able to fund outstanding research, leading toward cures and improved quality of life for children with cancer. Browse through more than 1,000 funded projects below.
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ALSF Funded Research Projects
| Project Title | Institution / Principal Investigator(s) |
Grant Type |
Year | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MYC as a Driver and Anti-Cancer Target in Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors | Vanderbilt University Medical Center / William Tansey, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Tennessee |
| Enhancing Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma | The Regents of the University of California, San Diego / Alice Yu, MD/PhD & Mitchell Diccianni, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Preclinical Testing of Candidate Therapeutics in a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Development of an anti-KIR3DL1 Antibody to Promote Innate Immunity Against Neuroblastoma | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Katherine Hsu, MD/PhD & Nai-Kong Cheung, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| Developing and Distributing a Pediatric Spinal Cord High-grade Glioma Model | Stanford University / Michelle Monje, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Targeting Microenvironmental Support of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia | University of Rochester / Craig Mullen, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | New York |
| Improving Immune-Mediated Oncolytic Viral Therapy: Engineering Tumor Vaccine Elements into the Virus | Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Kevin Cassady, MD & Christopher Walker, PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Ohio |
| DICER1-Driven Cancers: Models, Mechanisms and Therapies | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas / James Amatruda, MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Texas |
| Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Pediatric Sarcomas | The Regents of the University of California San Francisco / Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD & Maximillian Diehn, MD/PhD (Stanford University) | Innovation Grants | 2016 | California |
| Modeling Pediatric Spinal Gliomas Using Murine Spinal Neural Stem Cells | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Charles Eberhart, MD/PhD & Eric Raabe MD/PhD | Innovation Grants | 2016 | Maryland |